Poet Quotes · Page 29

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

— Joyce Cary

“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”

— Dan Simmons

“Under the starry sky, I count every dim space.”

— Ritu Negi

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

— Petra Haden

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.

— Henry Rollins

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in…

— Clarence Day

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how…

— Billy Collins

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured…

— Marilyn Hacker

“This is really what you want? To live with a poet?” “Yes,” she said. “With the hot plate? And the lice?”

— Joshua Ferris

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

— Vanna Bonta

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a…

— Horace

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a…

— Mary Webb

I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set…

— Italo Calvino

When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My sense of the poet is classical - the poet is one who makes poems. In each book, I develop and repeat…

— Lawrence Joseph

Poet, forger of ideals, dreamer among the possibilities of life, prophet of the millenium, do you get impatient with the prosaic life…

— J. G. Holland

Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the…

— Robert Mondavi

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in…

— Socrates

[I have] my own view about [Bob] Dylan's Nobel prize. Which is, I'm firmly in the Nay camp. I do think the…

— David Bennun

Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small…

— Orson F. Whitney

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre

— Michael Nesmith

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

— Harold Bloom

With the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

— Anonymous

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

— Emily Dickinson

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

— Rupi Kaur

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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